We want to say thank you

After the youth exchange finished, our participants were involved in many actions to increase the visibility of the project.

In this video you can see what we have achieved together.

Another presentation about our project

 

Participants from C.K. Norwid Secondary School in Krasnystaw made a presentation about 'LARP it up' youth exchange and showed their peers what experiences they gained while taking part in the project. 

Thanks to this kind of actions more and more students are willing to participate in youth exchanges.

Sharing opinions

Polish participants shared their opinions about the youth exchange. Check what they said in this video ;)

 

That's how we evaluated our youth exchange

 

During the last day of the youth exchange we filled out questionnaires about our meeting. We answered questions related to what we have learned, how we developed our English skills and also how much we have learned about the social exclusion. 

The results of this evaluation are gathered in one file where they are presented in the form of graphs. You can download them HERE.

Polish participants are sharing their experiences

 

Participants from the Polish group, Milena, Julka, Ada, Maciek and Mikołaj, who are pupils of the 8th grade at the Juliusz Słowacki Primary School in Małochwiej Duży,  told their colleagues from grade 8 and their younger colleagues from grade 7 about their experiences during the exchange. 30 young people got to know the results of the LARP it Up youth exchange.

Thanks to this important activity soon more youngsters will experience similar project adventures with us;)

Videos about the theater games are ready!

 Check out how our games looked like;)

'STEVIE'

'KINGDOM IN TROUBLE'

Last day of the youth exchange

 

We spent those 10 days full of activities, learning new things and sharing experiences with people from other countries. It was a great adventure to meet and talk, to play and cook together. 

Last moments of our youth exchange we spent on... planning our future activities. We would like to meet again and we hope it will be possible soon!

Trip and reflections

 

It's almost the end of our youth exchange so it's time to start summing up what we have learned here. 

Today we were discussing 4 out of 8 Key Competences for Lifelong Learning and we were trying to write down what things related to them we have learned during our meeting in Poland. Later we will write them down in our Youthpass certificates. It really helps us to become more aware of the skills we gain every day.

Before the task with the competences we had a trip to... Kazimierz Dolny! It's a beautiful small town, not so far away from our venue. We could successfully refresh our heads to be more productive during the next workshops.

Our second LARP

 

In the morning we started with more workshops connected with the topic of our youth exchange. One of our taks was to build a tower using only materials that we received. Each group had some obstacles that were making this task more difficult. For example in one group there were people who couldn't use one of their abilities: speaking, hearing, seeing or moving. Thanks to this we could understand better the difficulties faced by people with disabilities and also learn to cooperate.

Later it was time prepare for the next theater game. The plot was set in the middle ages so we needed to change the rooms and corridor into castle, forest and the village. It was a lot of fun! 

At the same time we were receiving info about our characters, their description and their tasks in the game. Everyone had time to prepare costumes that would change them into a knight, court lady, baker... and more.

Our game lasted around two hours and fortunately it ended happily for the kingdom:)  

Sharing traditions

 

The last day of October is celebrated in a lot of countries as Halloween. But is it the same in Lithuania, Slovakia and Poland?

Today we had a chance to discuss more about the traditions connected with Halloween and All Saint's Day in our countries. 

We discovered that we are not so different and we have similar customs.

In the evening we also had Halloween party and we could try snacks from Poland, Slovakia and Lithuania.

Going deeper into the topic

 

The main topic of our youth exchange is connected with social exclusion and the whole day was dedicated to this topic.

Before lunch we had a workshop during which we could answer the questions:

👉Has it ever happened in your life that you were not accepted by the group?

👉What are our feelings when we are accepted and when we are rejected?

👉Can we achieve more being a harmonious group than a group in which there are divisions and conflicts?

👉Why there are conflicts in groups?

Later we were thinking what should be done to solve the problem of social exclusion in our countries.

We can see social exclusion for example in the class when a new person has trouble with making contact with other people. To help them, we can start a conversation, ask them about their interests or organize integrational meetings with the class. - Polish group

People with disabilities are discriminated too. To solve this problem, we should not isolate them from us, if necessary, lend a helping hand. In addition, it is important to create a comfortable environment for them, for example: renovate elevators, install landing tracks near the stairs, provide suitable jobs, organize various creative activities. - Lithuanian group

People should cooperate together even when they are different nationalities, they don’t have same religion or they don’t have same skin color... One of methods that can help us with this problem is called snow ball method. - Slovak group

In the afternoon we participated in theater workshops and we were making decorations for our first theater game on the topic of social exclusion.

Visiting Zamość and Lublin

 

After breakfast we went to the conference room where we got divided into two teams. We got the information that during today's trip we will have some tasks to do. 

Each group received envelopes with the names 'Zamość' and 'Lublin' written on them. These are the names of the cities we were going to visit and play the city game there.

We arrived in Zamość after 12 am and our first task was to find the stairs to the Town Hall, where vice mayor of Zamość was going to meet with us. Both groups managed to find the stairs and we could say a few words about our project to the vice mayor. 

After that groups split and went to fulfill other tasks which were: go to the city walls to shoot with the cannon, take a group picture in the park, find the statue, and... go for lunch;)

We ate lunch together in Zamość and after that we went to Lublin to do another tasks. The most difficult one was to find 'czarcia łapa' (a devil's hand), because there are a few of them in Lublin. It is also the name of the legend connected with the city. 

All groups did their jobs very well and we could go back to Motycz Leśny for a dinner.

Our youth exchange has just started!

 

Yesterday we came to Motycz Leśny with a lot of expectations and fears regarding this project. At first, everyone was a bit shy but after the first activities we already felt that this 10 days meeting will be a great adventure!

Today we had a lot of fun activities that allowed us to know each other better. We played a lot of integration and teambuilding games and also learned how to juggle! 

All the activities were prepared in such way that we had the opportunity to talk with participants from all 3 countries, so we had to communicate in English. It was challenging but thanks to that we discovered it's not so difficult to understand each other, even if our mother tongues are so different.

Our youth exchange begins in one week

There is only one week left for the youth exchange. Meanwhile, let's see the video made during the preparatory visit:

Preparatory visit for the youth exchange

 

On 3-5.10.2021 a preparatory visit for the international youth exchange entitled 'LARP it Up' took place. In 3 weeks, young people from Poland, Lithuania and Slovakia will come to us to play theater together for 10 days. We will also talk about social exclusion and we will try to ensure that, apart from our group, other members of our local communities also talk about the problem of exclusion.

Group leaders and youth representatives participated in the preparatory visit. We discussed the division of responsibilities, proper securing of activities in the age of a pandemic and logistics aspects.

Preparatory meeting was really helpful, I learned a lot of things, and it will definitely be easier to work after two weeks when all students meet together. - says Kotryna, a young leader from Lithuania.

In the HEureka Generator group there will be students from our partner schools: Norwid Secondary School from Krasnystaw, Słowacki Elementary School from Małochwiej Duży and young members of our organization.

Our project got accepted!

 

Our project, 'LARP it up', has been approved!
We will implement the main activity at the end of October this year.
Stay with us!